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n TFIK DEMOCRAT ONLY OTtfC DOLLAR A YEAR, (asii-i-ai)Va:sTK. 4tOOl Aivi:i:t!-im. M i i u i m. FlilST ri. jod orncE - -ATT H.l o E E- HILLIARD, Editor and Propiretor. "EXCELSIOR" IS OUR MOTTO. --1 pi low H.ofl t,tr tmi . VOL IX. SCOTLAND NECK, N.C., THURSDAY, MARCH 30,' lSltt BEMOCKAT. j. B. WHITE & CO, General Produce COMMISSION MERCHANTS, 11 ot 13 Itoanoke Dock. 3 2 3m Kokfolk, Va. p K O F ESSIONAL. 0 u. w. o. Mcdowell, (jFFICE North corner New Hote Vi.iri Street. Scotland Nkck; N. C. HP Always at his office when not professionally engaged elsewhere. y 2G tf. D R. A. C. LIVER M A N, Office- over J. D. Ray's. Main Street Oiric !;urs 9 to 1 o'clock, a; in.; 2 to 5 o'clock, p. m. ? 12 1 v. Scotland Neck, N. C. rjillO.MAS N. HILL, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Halifax, N. C, Practices in Halifax and adjoining counties, and the Federal and Supreme Courts. 3 8 !y TJAVII) HELL, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Enfield, N. C Practices m all the Courts of Halifax and adjoining counties and in i.ie Su preme and Federal Courts. Claim-, col lected in all parts of the State. 3 8 ly. J A. DUNN, t ATTORNEY AT LAW, Scotland Neck, N, C, Pi; ei iocs wherever his services are t. .:cdir. feb!3 ly. 4 II. KlTClIlN, Mi Attorney and Counselor at Law, Scotland Neck, N. O. its' Office: Corner Main and Tenth Struts. 1 5 ly. I..). MERCER & SON. No.lOSosth 0th St, (bet. Main Cary Sts. RICHMOND, VA. Cumber Commission lilfterctyant (Jives personal and prompt attention of all cnn. -i'j;'i:nents nf.Lnmr.er, Shingles. Latlis. Etc. 4 17-!K ly. NEW Jewelry Store Alter sx yeira experience, I feel thuronscbly competent jtoJlo.H 1 1 work that is expected of a WATCH-MAKER & JEWELER. WATCH-MAKER & JEWELER. Repairing and Timing Fine Watches A SPECIALTY. I i so catc? j full lino of. Watches Clocks and Jercdry. Musical Instruments ami Fancy Good?. Spectacles and Eye-glasses properly fitted to the eye. THE KE8T ON EARTH. 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Calm hands are folded o'ar a quiet breast, The weary head is pillowed in sweet rest, And sorrow comes too late! What matters wealth or fame? The narrow grave is all that earth can give, The deathless soul in other worlds shall live And men forget our name. What matters aught of earth? The passing pictures of a shadowed dream, The changing eddies of a turbid stream. Sure these are nothing worth. Why, then, despond, my friend? The one thou lovest has hut found at last Sweet, peace and calm and rest when toil is past, And death i not the end! THE LOCAL NEWSPAPER. Wilmington. Star. Governor Francis, of Missouri, was a successful business; man, and made a fortune by bis energy and sagacity, before be became Gov ernor. Speaking as a man of expe rience, he puta thus on record bit opinion of the va!ue of the local pa per to the community in which it is published: ''The editor, proportion to his means, does more for his country than any other ten rueDj he ought to te supported, not because you like him or his wiitiDga, or not supported because you dislike him aud disagree with his writing, but all should support a local paper be cause it is the best investment a commuuity can rnakej it may not be brilliantly edited or crowd-, ed with tbouhr, but financial! it is more beuelt to the people than the teacher or preacher. Under stand me, I do not say morally or Intellectually, but financially; and yet on the moral question you will find most of the local papers on the right side. Today the editors ol tha home papers do the most for the least money of any men on earth." This is literally trne, ana truer cf the papers published in small towns aud in the rural districts, some times called country papers, which depend almost altogether ou local support, than it la of the paper pub lished in large cities. There isn't a paper published in North Carolina, however insignifi cant it may be considered, which isn't worth more to the community in which it is published than the community pays for its support. Omitting the dailies, there are weekiy papers published lu North Carolina, some of which compare favorably with weeklies published in any State, which are worth many times as much. The wort that they do is not appreciated, but il chey ceaxed to exist their value would soon be discovered and ac knowledged Local patters are not always as sood as they might be, but iu such cases it will generally be found to be the fault of the peoplefwho do uot support them as they should be supported. Thu better a paper is sustained the better It cau be made, aud the better the paper is the bet ter it speakb for the progress! ve uess, business thrift, and intelli gence of the community for which it speaks. A man may subscribe lor and read a half dozen papers, but the one that ought to have the first claim on him is his home pa per, not altogether on account of it, out as a matter of local pride , and local interest. He should take pride in having a creditable journ alistic representative of the commu nity in which he lives. It is bus;s ness, too. A Million Friends. A fricrd in ueed is a frie d Indeed, und not leas than one million people have just such a friend in Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption, Coughs and Colds. If you have -.ever nsed this Great Cough Mediei cine, one trile will convince you that it has wonderful curative powers in all diseases of Throat, Chest and Lungs. Each bottle is guaranteed to do all that ia claimed money will be refunded. Trial bottle free at at E. T. Whitehead & CVs Drug store. Large bottle 50c. and $1.00. BROWN AS A PUNCTUATOR. What came of trying a new rifid method of learning the RULES. "Brown, my boy, there's nothing like it It's better than 'French in Six Weeks,' because yon can work it into yourself in a month, so that you can hardly say or think any thing without following the rule. Take this beautiful selection, which recalls our old school-boy. days: The boy stood on the burning deck, comma, whence all bat he had fled, semicolon; the flames that lit the battle's wreck, comma, shone aroand him o,er the dead, period.' That's grand; that's inspiring. You have all the beauty and all the sentiment, and besides you panctu ate as yon go along, and so mingle the artistic and the useful. Brown was quite taken with this new plan for learning how to purct aate properly, says the Washington Star. He had often felt like a brother to the fellow who wrote a book without any punctuation what ever, simply adding In en appendix a complete list of punctuation marks from which the reader could select nd punctuate as much or aa little as he pleaeed. The first lesson went off awim miugly. Brown so ftll into the spirit of it that as he walked up the street afterwards he found himcelf soliloquizing i "I wonder, comma, if I had better get that paregoric, comma, before I go home, period. Perhaps, comma " Then he slipped up on a piece of bananna skin and went down flat with two exclamation points and enough stars to equip several issues of a "blank et sheet." i For the first time in his life he felt like using. the "dash" and also making a dash for the miscreant who threw that murderous peel there. He lay on the pavemeut long enough to denote several para graphs, then got up with difficulty and limped down tne street. But the magic power of that first lesson was still upon him, and meet ing a newsboy, began: "Well, com ma, my boy, what papers have you? interrogation poiut." The sharp eyed little rascal gazed at him cu riously and then replied : "Com-ah? Come off. When did yer 'scape from th' 'sylum?" Afttr puuetuating the town gen eraily during the next two hours and getting a crowd of small boys athis heels, whom he escaped by seeking refuge iu an empty school building a place the average boy uever enters if he can help it he took home to his dear family a somewhat battered but still large supply of punctuations. A t 2 a. m. bis wife nundged him. "John there are burglars in the house!" "What ah? Burglars burglar!' Now wide awake, be sprang to the floor, exclaimed; uDcaiest, comma, I will defend you, camma, even with my heart's bloo'd, comma if necceasary, exclamation poiutl He then threw open the chamber door right in the face of two masked burglars, who held pistols to hia brest and demanded; "Your money or your lifel" With one whirl of Lis strong right arm he dashed the pistols aside, two bullets perforating the h!l window in instead of his head, as was intended. With two more whirls of that trusty arm he sent the burglars as surely and swiftly as one sentence follows another in the moutn of a 200 a minute speak er out through the window after the bullets, remarked: "There, cam ma, now, comma, yon can hunt your bullets at your leisure, period. Call again, comma, and I'll snow yon how to punctuate better, comma, bat you can't put a period to my existence jast yet, period." Then rnshiog back to his wife he exclaimed: "Joy to my life, excla mation point, light of my eyes, more exclamation points, come to my arms, period." They fell weep ing ou each other's necks. Stars aud dashes come in here, denoting a domestic scene too sacred for the eyes and ears of the vulgar public. Waittd Fingernail. Durham Sun. Some fellow who hasprobabiy nothing else to do hat figured it oat this way; The average person trims off the nail ooe-thirtyaecond part of an inch and a half every year. The average ot human life all over the world it forty years. There are 1, 300,000,000 people in the world, who, therefore, waste on an average, 2 8, 400 miles of ringer nails each gener ation. A SOUTHERN GOVERNOR'S VISIT. TO A CONVICT CAnP WHERE HE GOT A CORDIAL RECEPTION. Thomas Nelson Page in lUrper's Drawer. "I oace msde a mittake myself bj trying to bo very thorough," said the governor, shutting his tsstti dows on bis Havana, and closing hia eyes retrospectively. "WDen was it?" we askd. "Not so long ago," said the gov ernor . Does any of you think 1 look like a felon?" he asked. Tbr renlies were not unanimous. "Well. I was arrested as one within the last two years," he said. "Wbsn I came into the governorship I thought I wonld be very thorough, and one of the first things I investigated was the convict system. The newspa pers laid I bad made promises that I would give honest labor a show. Perhaps I did. So one day I slipp ed off by myself and wsnt up to li e m.nee to see how the thing was be ing worked when no one was expect ed. The charges had been made that the lessees ran things very dif ferently, when an investigation committea was expected, from the way they usually ran them, and that ordinarily the treat ment was very harsh. I intended to go down into the mines, and I put on an old salt rf clothes in which 1 used to hunt occasionally. They were torn and muddy, and I con gratulated myself that no one would know me. "In the pockets were all sorts of olds and ends, such a string, wire, a knife, nippera, etc. I s;ot the con ductor to let me off the traiu at a crossing, aud walked a mile or two to the mines- As I got near them, thinking I would look over the ground before going out into tbe cleared space. I turned out of tbe path and struck op the hill through tbe brush. I took a survey, and saw a small group of vac..: around a fire, on or two of them convicts, oce or two perhaps visiter, and one a guard with a double-barreled shot-gnn acroes his arm. I was thinking of goog down, and took a step jor two, when some one bshind me said , 'Hold odj oome back here.' 1 turned, and there 30 steps from tne was a guard, an ugly old fellow; long and bony, with his shot-gun across his arm. 'What do you wanif 1 asked. " 4I wants yoa,' he said, 'and I wants yoa quick. Come bre.' "1 went over, moved rather by curiosity. 'Well, what do you want with me?' " 'I'm goin' to take you to tbe warden,' he said. "'But I won't go,' I don't want to go to the warden, and I ron't go.' ' Yoo won't? Well, we'll see if yoa won't. If you don't, you'll git a load of buckshot in you,' he said, dropping his gun, and palling back the barotner slowly. "I saw that ha had me and I de termined to explain. '1 am visitor op here,' I said. "Yes, no doubt; that's why I wants you to finish out your viit. We can't bar to part with jou. Walk along tbar.' '' But' I began. ''But nothing,' said he; 'jou don't want no bat hot this.' and be gave me a crack with the butt of bis gun whicb nearly knocked mi over. Mar2h on.' " 'Look hare; I'm tbe governor of the state,' said I, trying to look im posing. He looked at me quizzically, You're a pretty-looking goT'nor, ain't you? said he. 'Well, Gov'nor, I'm glad to see yon; I'm gwme to help yoa finish out jo' term. Walk along thar an shet no yer jaw. I'm gittin' kinder tired on it, and I'm a good mind to let yoa have a load of buokshot any ways, jsat to teach yoa masters, " Well, that old fellow marched me down, and made a convict go through my clothes. Tbe things in my pockets were proof positive of my guilt, of coarse, snd yoa never heard such a lambasting as be gave ire in your life, all tha time keeping a running fire at me, asking what I was 'in for' etc. The circumstantial evidence was that was burglar, but t'aey all agreed that I looked like a pickpocket, and one man even saggested that I bad picked a burglar's pocket. That was the worst of all. Then be marched me oil to the warden." 'Wbtt became of tLe gairdf atked oce. "Hs' my manj:r on my frro." ! said the governor "an I h still mike jme march straight. " MELANGE OF DOTS. It is said that we should te life like a man. Take il jot aa though it were as it ia an eartjt, vital, essential afiatr. Take it though yoa personally wtte u take the task of perfurmiug k merry part in il as thnagh the world tad waited for your cootie?. Take it as though it wen a grand opportunity to do and to carry for ward great and cod arbemea, to help and cheer a aurlVing, w jarr, it my be heart-broken brolhrr. It is not made half as ujucti of aa stould be tbe cast. Wt-re i tbe ujau r woman woo accomplish. a one tithe of what might be done? Who cannot look back upon opportunities !ot, plana unachieved, tbougbU crushed, aspiratiuna unfulfilled, and all cauted from the laek of necessary and pos sible eiTortr If we knew better bow to take and ir ke ihe moat of lit, it would be far greater than it is. It is said that m&nv of the disap polntments of life com? from mistak ing acquaintances for friend a. It is said that what we learn in youth grows with us, and in time be comes a purl of the mind itself. It is said that they that do noth ing, are .in tbe readiest way to do that whicb Is worse ihun nothinj. It is said thai confidence is a a thing not to be producsd by cou) pulsions. No one can bn forced into trust. It Is said that religon is not a thing of noise and sp:sm, bat of si lent self-sacrifice and quiet growth. Il is stiid most people would tuc- ceed in iuli tbingi, if they nere not troubled with great ambitions. It is said that when moral cour age feel that it is in the right there is no persoual daring of which it i incapable. It is Eu.id that we should be happy if we cau, bat we b'uould not despise thcs wno art: otherwise, ft-r we know not their troubled. It is said that flattery is ofi.o.j .. tragic of meanness, where, ltho jjj both parlies intend deception, uelth. er are deceived. It is sail that feelings come and go like light troop following tle victory of tbe present; but principle like troops of the line, are undiaturb ad and btfttid fast. It 18 siid that those who are in capable of shining bat by dress, wonld do wf 11 t consider that tbe contrast between th m and their clothes, turns out to their dlsadvans tige. It is said that generosity during life is a very difTtrunt thing from generosity in tbe hour of death; tbe one proceeds from gennine bbertj and benevolence, the other from pride or fear. It is aaid tht vou may derive tboagbt from othera, but your way of thinkicg, tbe mould in which yout thoughts are cast, mut he your own intellect may be imparted, but uot each man's intellectaal frame. It id a a id tuut mora attention abouhl be paid to bodily healtn tlan to mental growth ; tbe tree of knowl edge should he grafted to to tbe tree of life. Whoever has sacrificed to witdom generallv sacrifices wis dom too. It ia said that the only service whicb you reader to yoor fellow men Is d more service to yoa than it cu be to them, because in serving o'Leri yoa exrclse, you dtvelop U,oe in yourself which are Godlike. FlIILANDKIi. So it will be. Charlotte Observer. The business men of the country do not appear to be seriously alaun- ed about the pecunty of their intei- est under a Democratic administra tion. On the contrary, tbete has been a distinct growth of confidence in every section since the 4th t March. This is evidenced in no other way so clearly as by tbe offer to the Treasury of told in exchange for greenback offers so numerous that all fear that the Treasury will not be able to meet the demands upon it for gold has been allayed. It has tbe shining metal, enough and to spare, and for nearly tbrft weeks there has been no suggestion ot a necessity for an itsbue ol bonds. Tbe present easy condition ot national finances, so far as the gold obligations of the government are concerned, is eloquent test I mony to the public confidence in Preeiden Cleveland, Secretary Car lisle and tbe Democratic party. 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